I had never intended to post anything to fictionpress, but I found that to be a beta reader, it was required. Most of what I have written was done in high school, although a good bit was written in the beginning of my college career as well. Despite my love for stories, I've never found an affinity for writing them. What I truly love is editing. So I decided while I was uploading stories...my chances of getting picked as a beta reader were much higher if I had a big shiny number next to my name :-). It seemed like a good idea at the time...

**REMOVED AND SOON TO BE PUBLISHED! Please see my profile for details** Lara Montgomery is a do-gooder...or a dream-ruining, boyfriend stealing sl*t, it really depends who you talk to. In an attempt to atone for past sins she completes good deeds for fellow students who request her help, much to the disgust of Fletcher Townsend, the biggest past sin of them all.

After leaving his first cruel sponsor Tariq Hassal behind, Zhas now has the freedom and time to explore the city of Bhajar, the heart of the Hahnar Empire. Despite a grouchy new sponsor, Zhas grows comfortable in his new home. However, freedom has its costs. Zhas once knew who he was, but now he's beginning to question, and not all of life's lessons are kind. M/F, M/M

Zhas is enslaved as a child and brought to a new world to be a zhalja for a man of wealth— to be his steward, entertainer, host, and most vocal advocate in business and politics. However, the easy and charming life of a zhalja is not nearly so simple as Zhas originally imagined, and soon he's struggling to reconcile what he has been taught and what he truly wants. M/M

Farel is adrift, an ex-con shifter in a world of humans who aren't fond of his kind. Sunny is a woman misunderstood, disowned by her mother and more comfortable alone than with others. As they try to cope with their misfortune together, they learn that the body can change, but the soul always stays the same. Trans woman main character

Life was complicated enough. Her job required a clearance, several passports, and lying to her boyfriend. When she gets mixed up with the CIA's fifth Most Wanted, she has to go undercover with her partner as his fiancée. It doesn't help that he's overprotective, that they have to sleep in the same bed, or that he manages to get into that little compartment behind her heart. [FIN]

He killed her family, destroyed her village, and took her prisoner. He was a Saxon, arrogant, godless, and expected her to become his wife and bear him sons. She hated him. But slowly, her reasons to hate were taken, until only confusion remained.

The first time I had kicked in the womb it had been when Max, a baby himself, had placed his hand against my mother's stomach. It had been the first, but certainly not the last, time I'd kicked him, and now suddenly he wasn't interested in a fight? Weird. **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

Complete After a rather hideous break up with her boyfriend due to her inability to 'put out', Talia bullies her brother's best friend into teaching her the complexities of a 'full' relationship. Turns out uni courses have nothing on life lessons! **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

It's not easy to pretend you're in love for the sake of teenagers and housewives across the country but top footballer Lucas Goodspeed and shy, romantic Isobel Saunders soon discover that convincing themselves that they're not in love might be even harder. **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

I had known Elliot Sinclair since I was 10 and never felt any compulsion to get naked with him. What could possibly have happened last night to change that? I prodded my sozzled mind for an answer, but none was forthcoming. **Removed and now available on Amazon and Smashwords!**

Fix-ups are the worst for Kate, who hasn't trusted a man since her father took off. So when the gods send her back to Ancient Rome and into the arms of a famous gladiator, she's certainly going to have something to say about it. Even if he is her soulmate

Since she was sixteen, Amy has written love letters to her future husband. In a fit of frustration, she throws them out, where they're picked up by the last person in the world she ever expects. Since when do rock stars sing about nothings like her?

He winked and turned around to return to his desk, giving me a glimpse of The Complete Collection of Poems by Edgar Allan Poe sticking out of his back pocket like a sign with big red words saying, "I am attractive and intelligent. Do me now." The universe did not play fair.

"In another life," he whispers into my hair, words spilling over my temple and brushing my eyelids shut, "in another universe, with an alternate reality and a different you and a different me, we would have been together."

*StarCrossed Round VI Winner* Seriously, who died for true love anyway? You fall in love, your heart breaks so you get drunk and then you move on but this was an entirely new twisted view to the story. Could you imagine if Shakespeare had decided to write that Romeo had kidnapped Juliet? She had fallen victim to Stockholm syndrome and had fallen in love with her captor?

If this is the last time I see you, I want you to remember that there are men who can touch without hurting. There are even those who give without asking. And that kindness might be hiding, even in the darkest of chests. – Interracial - set during the 30's in the South. * SKOW 13 WINNER - Best One-Shot (Judges' pick) & Best Challenge Response (runner-up)

What do you do when your best friend hooks up with your twin brother and breaks his heart? Pretend to date the guy she likes- the guy you've hated since you've known how to. And hope the cliche doesn't catch up with you. COMPLETE!

She's just the sweet girl who sells cupcakes. He's just the charming guy who buys them. She has a crush. He has something up his sleeve. Pure, unadulterated, happy, non-dramatic fluff. rated M for some language and some, yknow. Some eventual schmex.

"I know what you're thinking, and you're wrong. We don't want to do anything perverted with your underpants, on the contrary, they'd be revered." Some Saturday nights are more interesting than others... One Shot.

'Dear Pip, Firstly, don't freak out. I know you've just tipped four dolls' heads out onto your bed and they're probably giving you the major creeps. Bear with me, there's a point to this.' One shot, ADoR prompt.

“To truly understand, Father Vitale, I need to tell you about things you might have only thought existed in dreams, in stories. In nightmares. I need to tell you about a girl. A young girl named Sofia, whose only talent was killing.” One Shot.

He leaned over just a little and, tilting his head slightly, placed a kiss on her jawbone. It was the most sensitive part of her face, and only he knew it. "You forget that I know everything about you," he reminded her. "Every single thing." COMP TO DTIA!

Continued: Four kingdoms exist- The Colubri: the snakes , The Scrofa: the boars , the Aves: the birds and the Equus: the horses . Four characters from each kingdom lead separate lives, but all come together to protect all that they love.

A man recounts his tumultuous childhood during the early 19th century, which takes him around the world during the Napoleonic years. Piracy, romance, and the fluctuation of fortune in a story that takes a man from rags to riches.

She wanted the fairy tale. She wanted the chick flick. She wanted the soaring music, the dozen roses, the Princess Bride kiss-to-end-all-kisses. She wanted the cliché. It’s a pity she was so busy up in the clouds that she didn’t recognize it when it came.

Things are looking up for twenty year old maiden, Amala. Until she's taken from her home and brought to the Shadowland. Its a world unlike the one she knows, inhabited by Shadows, vampires, Crows, and shapeshifters. As well as a young man, named Keir.

COMPLETE! When Nessa White is told she only has a few weeks left to live, she panics and gives up her virginity to a guy she meets at a club. What happens when the two meet again a few months later and Nessa is still very much alive?

Four kingdoms exist- The Colubri: the snakes , The Scrofa: the boars , the Aves: the birds and the Equus: the horses . Four characters from each kingdom lead separate lives, but all come together to protect all that they love.

[COMPLETE] Aliana was born with skin the color of dusty cinnamon. It was her skin that brought her to the feet of the Younger Prince of Deshret as a present to serve in his harem. And it was because of him she met his brother. Fate has an interesting domino effect.

COMPLETE In nineteenth century London, it isn't considered proper for a young lady to send flowers to a healthy young bachelor. But when Adrian Morey receives a bouquet with a challenge, he can't help but be intrigued.

I'm sure you've heard of the Ugly Stepsister. She has been immortalized as Cinderella's petty, stupid, unattractive sister. Maybe some of it is true. Most of it isn't. For one thing, her name wasn't Cinderella - it was just Ella, short for Eleanor. For another, she didn't have any sisters.

Her eyes were steady, boring into mine, as if she were trying to understand why I thought my request was worth her time. I suppose that's just the way it is with immortals. What seems so unbearably important to a mortal isn't worth a fleeting thought to someone to whom a century is but the blink of an eye

An assignment for a theatre class I took. If I had dreamed Waiting for Godot thank GOD that's never happened! and were to analyze what it meant about my life...this is what would result. Rated T for some language I think?